The birth of ancient Egypt
In the passage from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC, the first pharaohs extended their authority throughout the entire Nile. In the 19th century their tombs were found at Abydos. For their eternal rest, the first kings of Egypt chose a rugged and desert area on the...Read more
Valley of the Queens
Valley of the Queens is the name of the necropolis of ancient Egypt where queens and princes of the Nineteenth and Twentieth dynasties were buried, although some from earlier times have also been found. It is located southwest of the Valley of the Kings, opposite...Read more
Ramses XI and the end of the New Kingdom
Under the last king of the New Kingdom, the influence of the priests of the god Amun was increasing, to the point that the high priest Herihor usurped royal authority and became the true power of Egypt. The New Kingdom was the most glorious time of Egypt, turned into...Read more
The discovery of the tomb of Maya, treasurer of Tutankhamun
In 1975, the British archaeologist Geoffrey Martin, of the Egypt Exploration Society, began the search in the Saqqara necropolis for a very special tomb: that of the henchman of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, the influential and powerful Maya. But the location of the tomb...Read more
Kaaper or Sheikh el-Beled (Headman of the village)
Kaaper also known as the (Headman of the village), is a wooden sculpture of the Egyptian nobleman Ka-aper, which was carved in the time of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, in the late 4th Dynasty or the early 5th Dynasty. Find and history The statue was found in the year...Read more
Amun in ancient Egypt
God Amun. Amun is traditionally linked to the hidden, that which is everywhere but cannot be seen, only felt. From this conception derives his connection with the air and the wind that surround everything. This attribution to the figure of the god did not remain...Read more
The mysterious Serapeum of Saqqara, the necropolis of the sacred bulls
Saqqara, near the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, is home to the oldest surviving pyramids from Pharaonic Egypt. It was one of the necropolises preferred by the pharaohs and the ruling elite. It is one of the richest archaeological sites in ancient Egypt and is...Read more
Ptolemaic Egypt, What did the Macedonians do in Egypt?
When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt in the course of his war against the Persians he was greeted as a deliverer. The yoke that the Second Persian Domination had imposed on the population of the Nile country had lasted for a decade. The Persians had committed...Read more